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New Yorkers Divided about Mosque at Ground Zero

post #1 of 7
7/6/10 at 12:59pm
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...e-new-yorkers/

If this article is correct, not all New Yorkers are happy.

Would a mod please move this post to another thread, Putting Not One but Two Mosque at Ground Zero. I think I should have just posted this there. Thanks.
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post #2 of 7
7/6/10 at 1:09pm
There's no such thing as "all New Yorkers" being anything. We're a huge city, with millions of diverse people. There's never going to be a time when all New Yorkers agree on something. Although we all agreed that the tragedy of September 11, 2001 was horrific and a nightmare come true. That we agreed on.
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post #3 of 7
7/6/10 at 5:25pm
If there were a vote, mine would be: No Mosque, no way, no how, no ever, on or near ground zero.
I don't think any religious symbol should be installed/erected in that area. Let any memorial and/or buildings remain free of religious connotations. That way all can be sobered by, mourn and respect what happened there without feeling any one religion is being favored over another.
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post #4 of 7
7/7/10 at 6:37am
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Originally Posted by Kai Bengals View Post
If there were a vote, mine would be: No Mosque, no way, no how, no ever, on or near ground zero.
I don't think any religious symbol should be installed/erected in that area. Let any memorial and/or buildings remain free of religious connotations. That way all can be sobered by, mourn and respect what happened there without feeling any one religion is being favored over another.
I agree with you 100%. Take the religion out of respecting the loss and tragedy of Ground Zero. Yes there should be memorials I think that is a good idea this country has memorials all over out of respect for those lost in all kinds of situations. Gettysburg for example. Just make it equal for all involved and eliminate all religion to be associated with any and all memorials, if they cant do that then they need to be prepared for any and all religious groups to be able to put up memorials or buildings there.
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post #5 of 7
7/7/10 at 12:48pm
What do you consider "near" Ground Zero? Withn sight? One city block away? Two blocks? Five? The entire garment dictrict? All of lower Manhattan?
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post #6 of 7
7/7/10 at 2:06pm
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What do you consider "near" Ground Zero? Withn sight? One city block away? Two blocks? Five? The entire garment dictrict? All of lower Manhattan?
Seriously. New York City is so densely populated that there's probably a church of each denomination within a block of any given area. So how far would you have them put it away? I mean, it's not like they're putting it in whatever building will be erected on the site. It's a "few minute's walk" from the site. And I pretty sure you could find any church within a "few minute's walk" from ground zero.
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post #7 of 7
7/7/10 at 2:59pm
I think they were glad to find anyone willing to buy the building.
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Kukiko Mitani, whose husband, Stephen Pomerantz, owned the building at the time, tried to sell it for years, at one time asking $18 million. But when the recession hit, she sold it in July to a real estate investment firm, Soho Properties, for $4.85 million in cash, records show. One of the investors was the Cordoba Initiative, an interfaith group founded by Imam Feisal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/ny...l?pagewanted=2

Here are pictures of the former Burlington Coat Factory.
http://www.archpaper.com/e-board_rev.asp?News_ID=4591
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“There’s a huge Muslim community down there, it might be the largest in the city,†El-Gamal said, explaining the need for such a project in Lower Manhattan. He added that there is nothing like it anywhere else in the city, a much-needed 92nd Street Y of sorts for both the downtown and Islamic communities.

The 120,000-square-foot project, which is expected to cost $100 million, will include a 500-seat amphitheater, a Middle Eastern-themed food court and restaurants, athletic and recreational facilities, a daycare, and other amenities, as well as a prayer space, which has caused much of the furor over what has been dubbed the “Ground Zero Mosque.â€
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